Enter a list of names and randomly select one or more with animation and elimination-round modes.
Type or paste a list of names and this tool picks one or more of them at random - a digital raffle where everyone's names go in, you press the button, and a spinning animation runs through the list before stopping on a winner. An elimination-round mode removes each winner before the next draw, so a roster can be worked through person by person. What most people get wrong: the animation is show, not lottery. The outcome is a random selection, and timing your click changes nothing. And without elimination mode, randomness has no memory - the same name can win twice in a row.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Ava Ben Cleo Dev (winners: 2, mode: elimination)
Expected output
Winner 1: one of Ava, Ben, Cleo, Dev Winner 2: one of the three names that were not drawn first
The first draw selects at random from all four names. Because elimination mode removes each winner before the next draw, the second pick comes from the remaining three, so the two winners are always different names and always members of your list, even though which names win is random.
You enter the list, choose how many winners you want, and start the draw. The winners are a random selection made at that moment; the animated spin that follows is presentation, cycling through the names before settling on the chosen result. Picking several winners returns that many names. The whole run happens in your browser - nothing you type or draw is sent anywhere or saved between visits.
Normal mode draws every winner from the full list, so the same name can appear more than once across draws. Elimination mode removes each drawn name from the pool before the next draw, so within one pass every winner is distinct and no one wins twice until the list is exhausted. Reach for it whenever repeats would look wrong: duty rosters, seating orders, or drawing a lineup one at a time.
Yes - set the number of winners before starting and the draw returns that many names. With elimination mode on, they will all be distinct. With it off, each pick draws from the full list, so the same name can win more than once even within a single multi-winner draw.
The pick is a genuine random selection from the list as it stands when you run the draw - no name is favored, and earlier results do not influence later ones. This is browser-grade randomness, not the cryptographic kind used for security - fine for a raffle or team pick, but a legally significant drawing needs a documented procedure instead.
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